Follow the day’s news liveReserve Bank leaves interest rate on hold at 4.35% despite higher than expected inflationVictorian state budget 2024: airport train delayed and sick leave for casuals scrapped in bid to rein in debtGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe opposition leader, Peter Dutton, says the prime minister...

Bob Olley’s unsettling vision of clash between miners and police is part of 40th anniversary show in Bishop AucklandBob Olley was there 40 years ago at the “battle of Orgreave”. “I saw the violence,” he said, shaking his head. “I thought I was in a foreign country when I saw what the police did. It is hard to believe it happened in this country.”The...

Charities fear ‘increasing risks of destitution and exploitation’ of refugees as they go into hidingThe Home Office is dealing with growing fallout from the high-profile round-ups of asylum seekers it wants to send to Rwanda, as some have gone into hiding while others have fled across the border to Ireland.Officials began rounding up asylum seekers...

Price rise for mass-market types expected as global production falls to lowest level in more than 10 yearsOlive oil prices are set to climb further this year – heading to more than £16 a litre for a bottle of extra virgin – amid a drop in global production to the lowest level in more than a decade.Lower production in Greece, Morocco and Turkey as part...

Mortgage holders have avoided another rate rise with the RBA opting to keep rates steady. Follow the day’s news liveReserve Bank leaves interest rate on hold at 4.35% despite higher than expected inflationVictorian state budget 2024: airport train delayed and sick leave for casuals scrapped in bid to rein in debtGet our morning and afternoon news emails,...

Mortgage holders have avoided another rate rise with the RBA opting to keep rates steady for the fourth consecutive meeting• Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBorrowers have been spared a 14th interest rate from the Reserve Bank and further increases are not certain as the central bank says it avoided a “tightening...